★ Kara LaReau and illustrator Kelly Murphy’s “heartening” middle grade novel LICORICE is “an appealing tale for animal lovers and mystery readers alike”
Known professionally as Katharine T. Carroll, Trowbridge oversaw the U.K.-based publisher’s U.S. publicity efforts for 18 years, and was key to accelerating Titan’s stateside growth and reviving the fortunes of its Hard Case Crime imprint. She died on June 28.
While the ALA was celebrating 150 years of promoting books and reading, the Graphic Novel and Comics Roundtable marked just eight years of connecting comics and librarians. But the results of its initial goals for the organization were visible everywhere at a show with a
Comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly is defending Tillie Walden’s recent graphic history ‘Charity and Sylvia’ from allegations that it plagiarizes another book of the same name.
America's semiquincentennial is here, and Publishers Weekly is just about a century away from being that young. We've both come a long way...
Over the past 150 years, we've seen incredible change, faced countless challenges, and continued to evolve. Through it all, we're
Emily St. John Mandel's masterful seventh novel opens in 2031, with the United States having collapsed into warring city-states and regional republics, and expands into a dizzying story of doubles and parallel universes. It’s a tour de force. @AAKnopf
The prominent wife of a megachurch pastor reckons with her humble roots in the uproarious debut novel from Deesha Philyaw. It’s a revelation. @MarinerBooks
★ Markus Motum’s “energetic and inspiring” middle grade work THE GREATEST PROJECT IN SPACE “excels in its celebration of human ingenuity and the connective capability of a shared goal”
A new €3 fee on low value packages entering the EU will raise the cost of books for European readers, and adversely impact publishers and booksellers in the U.K., who exported £521.6 million in print books to the EU in 2025.
A new philanthropic partnership will increase the purse size for the Booker Prize Foundation’s award for translated literature, now called the Bukhman International Booker Prize, to £100,000, starting next year. The all-star 2027 judging panel has also been revealed.
As the heat wave has many dreaming of autumn, we rounded up the most exciting adult books coming next season, to help you prepare for the many cooler days spent reading ahead.
The American Booksellers Association’s annual children’s-focused conference concluded on Monday afternoon with booksellers and publishers expressing relief that Children's Institute 2027 will take place in Albuquerque two weeks before ALA.